Living In Tokyo With Taki - Your Name

There are plenty of cinematic touchstones for which Your Name is comparable, but the end result still feels like the rarest find of all: a truly original work of mainstream cinema.

Plot hiccups aside, it's a visually impressive experience with endearing characters and a unique story.

For those who don't watch animated movies here is a short brief!

Your Name. (Japanese: 君の名は。 Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy drama film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai and produced by CoMix Wave Films. The film was produced by Noritaka Kawaguchi and Genki Kawamura, with music composed by Radwimps. Your Name tells the story of a high school girl in rural Japan and a high school boy in Tokyo who swap bodies. The film stars the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Masami Nagasawa and Etsuko Ichihara. Shinkai's novel of the same name was published a month before the film's premiere.

Living life like Taki Tachibana!

A high school boy living in Tokyo, who spends his days happily with his friends and has a part-time job in an Italian restaurant. He is short-tempered but well-meaning and kind and aspires to become an architect.

For the audience like us, the visuals hunt us like anything his iPhone, his sketches, his room ambiance everything feels like it's our world and we are living with him or he is in our world and he is our friend. So ultimately the graphics and animations the editor has done the great part to make an animated film as a real life experience!

Being a girl in the town of Itomori!

A high school girl living in Itomori, a rural town. She is dissatisfied with small-town life and wishes to move to Tokyo. She has a strained relationship with her father and is embarrassed by his often open displays of control as well as her part as a Miko in rituals for her family's shrine creating kuchikamizake, an ancient traditional way of creating sake involving chewing rice to intake yeast for fermentation.

One who loves nature should see the scenes of Itomori!

Music drags people to watch Your Name!

Yojiro Noda, the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band Radwimps, composed the theme music of Your Name. Director Makoto Shinkai requested him to compose its music "in a way that the music will (supplement) the dialogue or monologue of the characters"

The soundtrack of the film was well received by both audiences and critics alike and is acknowledged as being one of the factors behind its success at the box office. The film's soundtrack was the runner-up in the "Best Soundtrack" category at the 2016 Newtype Anime Awards, while the song "Zenzenzense" was the runner-up in the "Best Theme Song Category"

"Movie lovers who haven't yet watched the Your Name must watch it!".